Will You Run Out Of INT And BIGINT Identities In SQL Server?
In the war over Identities vs GUIDs as clustered indexes, one of the arguments in favor of Unique Identifiers is that you may run out of numbers when using a …
Setting Drive Allocation Unit Size With PowerShell
There seems to be some ongoing debate around whether or not formatting your data and log drives with 64KB allocation unit size even matters anymore. I would encourage you to …
Configuring Database Data And Log Files
One of the things that Database Administrators typically do is configure the Data and Log file growth settings for the databases on their servers. While these configurations vary by server …
SQL Scripts: How To Find Data And Log File Information
As a DBA, one of the things I routinely need to check is how much space is available in my database data and log files. In this post of my ongoing SQL …